Posted by Beernoser on 11/6/2012 1:47:00 AM (view original):Lawrie will go to second place bidder as werewolf went over budget. It might take a while to figure who that is.

Sorry about that guys, I really didn't expect to win all three of those players but I'll happily take my first choice in this auction for a starting pitcher and closer in Kershaw and Kimbrel both at age 24 and full of many more bad *** innings

What happens to the teams that use their $1000 on only 25 players. I guess they will have no AAA. Or they should be able to trade some of their players to expand their roster. We are probably going to need some time between the end of the draft and the start of our season in order to enable these roster adjustments

After the auction is completely over there will be a free agent signing period so each team can fill their minor league right.

My thinking is these free agent signings should be "restricted free agents" which means used only to fill the eight minor league slots. In October they will go back into the next auction and will not be available to be resigned by the team which signed them as free agents.

Posted by Beernoser on 11/8/2012 11:22:00 AM (view original):That was a question journey asked way before the draft started.

After the auction is completely over there will be a free agent signing period so each team can fill their minor league right.

My thinking is these free agent signings should be "restricted free agents" which means used only to fill the eight minor league slots. In October they will go back into the next auction and will not be available to be resigned by the team which signed them as free agents.

1. Admin will allow teams to field "up to" 8 AAA. You could have a team with 0-8 AAA players, and allow them to compete in the league.
2. Nobody should get anything for free. These restricted free agents need to cost $1 per player. At least, that was my understanding ;-)

In this age of 170 IP starting pitchers and 51 IP setup A relievers, it's not reasonable to tell someone to have a 25 man roster. No major league team comes close to this.

After our auction any unowned player would have been up for bidding at least 3-4 times without getting a single bid. These will be the worsiest of the worst. It's no big gift to allow them as roster fillers, especially if they can't resign them in case one does blossom unexpectedly.

It could of course be argued that team's should have saved an extra $ 8 for their minor leaguers, and making an example of them might be a good lesson, but I would really rather avoid the 16-146 records that will come with 25 man rosters.